When Bendicht Schmutz was born on 26 December 1717, in Vechigen, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Hans Schmutz, was 28 and his mother, Magdalena Gäumann, was 28. He died before 1723, in his hometown, at the age of 5, and was buried in Bern, Switzerland.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Fritz, Gerhard, Hans.
South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a dirty or slovenly person, from German Schmutz ‘dirt’, Middle High German smuz.
South German: nickname for a cheerful person, from a noun derivative of Middle High German smutzen ‘to smile’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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